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One of the most memorable places we checked out while we were in Lübeck was the Lübeck Museum of Theatre Puppets. It is a museum housing the immense collection of Fritz Fey, who has been collecting numerous items involved in puppetry from Germany a...

The newcomers who arrived in the little farming villages of medieval Germany would have stood out: They had dark hair and tawny skin, spoke a different language and had remarkably tall heads. Skulls unearthed from 1,400-year-old burials in southern...

Sometime back in November, we headed to Lübeck for a weekend. Lübeck is a city in the north of Germany, famous for its marzipan. Well, we wanted to escape Berlin for a short while, so we took the train to visit this Hanseatic city in the north for...

It's always exciting to discover a message in a bottle, but rarely ones that are 132 years old. Found on Wedge Island in Western Australia on Jan. 21, it's the oldest message in a bottle ever discovered. SEE ALSO: Microsoft co-founder discovers sunke...

Let me quote from the excellent Napoleon’s Last Stand paper, written by historian Jean-Noel Bregeon. Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, skilfully managed to expel Emperor Napoleon from Portugal in 1811 and won decisive victor...

Lasting only from May-Sept 1212, the Children’s Crusade was a popular religious movement in which thousands of young people took crusading vows and set out to rec­over Jerusalem from the Muslims. This was probably not as surprising an event back t...

Filed under: Etc.,Ford,Wagon,Classics What's the vehicle of choice for a roadtrip in January? A 1972 Ford Country Sedan, of course!Continue reading Driving a 1972 Ford station wagon from Berlin to a Finnish ice-racing course D...